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… under. Plunket nurses take over from midwives and other maternity carers when a baby is between four to six weeks old. … Dr Frederic Truby King in 1907. In this period, improving maternal and infant health was seen as critical to producing … self-proclaimed success in reducing infant mortality rates single-handed was overstated, providing mothers with …
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Part of story: Child and youth health
… A nation is often considered to represent its identity through its … arts have mixed in New Zealand (perhaps because they have often been set up in opposition to each other, with one valued … The most obvious instances were the opening ceremonies of international sporting events. The 1950 British Empire Games …
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Part of story: Sport and the nation
… history. The first focus was on Māori history, motivated by a widespread belief that Māori were a dying race and … culture and history should be preserved before it was too late. The Polynesian Society was founded in 1892 and its … scholars such as Elsdon Best , Johannes Andersen and Stephenson Percy Smith , and Māori scholars including Peter …
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Part of story: History and historians
… Bedrich (later known as Frederick) Turnovsky was born in Prague, then … parents were not particularly musical but he became passionate about music from the age of seven when he attended his first opera. Turnovsky was 16 and still a …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand. She was a communist and an organiser of protest movements, particularly against the Vietnam War, … dance and drama, as both a performer and an influential teacher, and in the physical education movement of the 1940s. Early life Rona Stephenson was born on 24 December 1914 in Whanganui, the …
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… James Keir Baxter was born on 29 June 1926 at Nurse Ross’s maternity home, Dunedin, the second son of Archibald McColl Learmond Baxter , an Otago farmer, and his wife, Millicent Amiel … Baxter, James Keir …
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… William Hobson was born in Waterford, Ireland, on 26 September 1792, the third of five sons of Samuel Hobson, a barrister, and his wife, Martha Jones. William joined the Royal …
Type: Biography
… Nicholas Moore was a well-known figure in Masterton for 55 years and was the oldest priest in New Zealand … was born in Kilmoganny, County Kilkenny, Ireland, on 16 September 1887, the youngest of 17 children of Anne Brennan and … Moore, a farmer and publican. Throughout his life he celebrated 17 September, the day of his baptism, as his birthday. …
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… People who live far away from other family members often feel this separation keenly after their children are born. Neighbourhood help Early … in New Zealand in 1843. A 10th was born in 1846. A letter written by Sarah to her mother describes one way she …
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Part of story: Parenting
… of Elizabeth Smith and her husband, John Atkinson, architect and stonemason. The family settled at Frindsbury, Kent; … school. However, his zest for learning – especially his interest in natural history – was such that his future wife was to write: 'He really is a wonder, he has entirely educated himself …
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… fiction. Even novels whose subject was the New Zealand wars tended to adopt a romance formula. Almost all novels by women in the 19th century followed a romance plot, often interwoven with family saga, which allowed colonial …
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Part of story: Fiction
… Holmes was New Zealand’s best-known and most influential late twentieth-century broadcaster, straddling the line between serious current affairs presenter and entertainer. He succeeded in the three mass media …
Type: Biography
… probably in Dundee, Angus, Scotland, in 1809 or 1810. After studying law he was admitted as a Writer to the Signet. He did not practise for long in his …
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… James and Denis Joseph Cummings, together with their sister Catherine and brother Timothy, were members of the New … before joining the New Zealand Police Force; he was appointed constable on 1 July 1899. In 1901 Denis became an … assistant clerk in the Wellington district office. With better pay and prospects, he married Catherine Quigley, on 26 …
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… railway clerk, and his wife, Elizabeth Kirk. The family shifted frequently, Falla's younger years being spent in Hāwera, Masterton and Invercargill. Falla freely acknowledged that his interest in natural history was stimulated by naturalists such …
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… Family violence remains a major problem in New Zealand. Protection order breaches Many people continue to breach protection orders. Being served with a protection order encourages some to even greater violence, and …
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Part of story: Family violence
… lives of middle-class colonists while alluding to the intimate desires of their creator. Gant’s work provides a vivid glimpse into the mind of a homosexual man in late Victorian New Zealand. Early years Robert Gant was born on 2 April 1854 in Woolwich, now part of greater London, to Robert Boddy Gant and his wife, Elizabeth …
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… and wherever he could, in his home and studio, at fêtes and fairs and in many formal art exhibitions in both New … grounds with an estimated market value of £550 and paid rates of almost £3. However, there is no trace of his ever … his last years were more difficult. He died, apparently intestate, in the Sydney suburb of Mosman on 21 February 1913. …
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… James Michael Liston (registered at birth as Michael James) was born in Dunedin on 9 … of Mary Sullivan and her husband, James Liston, a hotel-keeper. His parents were both from County Clare and had … community set belligerently apart from the Scottish Protestant majority and led by the pugnacious Irishman Bishop …
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… An experienced lawyer and judge, Justice Peter Mahon is best known for his report on the 1979 Erebus … 257 people. Mahon concluded that Air New Zealand’s inadequate safety processes led directly to the crash. He accused … the airline of covering up its mistakes with ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’. This controversial finding was fiercely …
Type: Biography